About
Chandrica Barua is from the Northeast Indian state of Assam. After her master's degree, she worked across India in museums and art organisations and in Japan as a travel writer, and researched on issues of gender, memory and history under two independent fellowships from UNESCO-Sahapedia and Zubaan-Sasakawa Peace Foundation. She has also worked specifically with the e-learning industry, and is keen to explore the possibilities in the digital education space.
Primary interests: medieval literature, post-colonial literature, gender and sexuality, literary theory, human rights discourse, digital humanities
Secondary interests: memory studies, trauma and victimhood, fantasy and SciFi, folklore and fairytales, oral history
Languages: Assamese, English, Hindi, Bengali (Understanding & Reading), Latin (Elementary)
